Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 137

Faicon030 Owner's Manual
I n fonnation l ines appear at the top of the dialog box. The Total l ine d isplays the
current total number of partitions. The Left l ine displays the number of megabytes
on your disk that have not yet been assigned to any partition.
Each partition ' s size is d isplayed to the right of the partition number in the edit box .
M i n imum partition size i s
the capacity of your hard disk. You can allocate a l l of the memory on your hard
disk to one part ition. For example, a
partition containing all
Use the scroll bar to scroll through partition boxes. To v iew the 28 parti t ions you
can click on the shaded area of the scroll bar to scroll through four partitions at a
time.
C lick on the partition box you wish to create or edit. Then click on the up and down
arrows to the right of the partition size box to i ncrease or decrease part ition size.
C licking on an unused box creates a new partition.
Note: There must be available bytes listed on the left line before you can increase
the size of any partition.
unused partition can be activated.
You can select Menu to display the Choose a Part i tion Scheme dialog box. This
dialog box allows you to choose preselected partitioning schemes.
To return to the most recent partition scheme, select U ndo. Selecting OK i n itiates
the partitioning process.
I f you want to return to the HDX.PRG main men u , select Undo.
The Expert option is shaded and cannot be selected u n less you have more than four
partitions. You need to use the Expert option only if you plan to use more than one
operati ng system. I f you are planning to use more than one operating system w ith
the same hard disk, see Extended Parti t i on Schemes.
8-1 0 Advanced Hard Disk Utilities
megabyte. Maximum part i tion size i s detenn ined by
I
megabyte hard disk can have a s i ngle
40
40 megabytes of memory.
1 megabyte or more must appear in the left box before an